Air Traffic Control

UniqueBeauty asked:


I’m interested in air traffic control but i’m confused about how some sites say that you need a 4 year degree.But aren’t you wasting money cuz some AT-CTI schools are 2 year and you can still be accepted to the FAA Academy.

Anyone went to the 2 year AT-CTI schools and got into the FAA Academy?

Will there be a difference in where i would work at if i have only a have an associates in Air Traffic Control?

Bernard

Lauren Siegel asked:


High traffic is inevitable at private airports during popular events or holiday seasons (think Super Bowl or winter in Aspen). With that in mind, we have put together some information and helpful tips to ensure that your private jet travel to bustling airports is both relaxing and stress-free.

“What is an STMP?” Special Traffic Management Programs (STMP’s) are implemented for special events that attract thousands of people and aircraft to participating airports. The FAA requires users to make arrival and departure reservations to and from these airports to manage the flow of arrivals and departures for these events.

“What is a slot time?” Slot times refer to airports expecting high traffic volume due to special events or seasonal activity. Slot times are issued to stagger incoming flight traffic in order to relieve air traffic control duties. Slot time reservations are typically available 72 hours prior to the estimated time of arrival.

Private Jet Travel Tips:

• Be flexible with your departure time requests. Allow a window for departure times. Slot times will not be assigned more than 72 hours in advance to the flight departure request.

• Avoid changing flight dates & times. Slot times are valuable and go quickly, so try to stick to your flight schedule to avoid conflicts.

• Arrive on time. Particularly in mountainous areas, weather can change rapidly. The closer you leave to your intended time, the better opportunity you have to guarantee your arrival time. So if your slot departure is 8am, please allow time for boarding so the jet will be ready and in position for an 8am departure.



Agnes

Chanel Miller asked:


Air Traffic Controller

Air traffic controllers regulate airplanes in the sky, from making sure they fly a safe distance apart to coordinating airport arrivals and departures. Individuals who want to become air traffic controllers, who can easily make more than $100,000 a year, must enroll in a course given by the Federal Aviation Administration and pass a test.

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Home Health Aides

With an aging demographic, home health aides and related occupations are in high demand. After a brief training period, workers can make well over $50,000 annually providing basic medical care and assistance to elderly individuals unable to leave their homes.

Non-Retail Sales Supervisor

Sales supervisors are generally responsible for the training, supervising, and scheduling of sales associates within an organization. Qualifications include strong communication skills, computer literacy, and problem-solving skills. The average salary for a sales supervisor working in a non-retail industry is $73,000.

Real Estate Broker

Real Estate brokers assist their clients in selling residential and commercial property. Obtaining the job requires first 60 to 60 hours of classroom instruction, followed by on-the-job sales training.

Transportation Managers

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Truck Driving

CDL driver jobs are in high demand given the necessity of professional transportation services to transport and deliver goods all throughout the country. Most truck drivers attend a specialized truck driving training program and can earn more than $35,000 in just their first year. Pay rapidly increases with the more experience drivers have behind-the-wheel.



Luis

Mercedes Oestermann Van Essen asked:


I simply don’t get it: Most of you reading this are probably using your mobiles, sit in front of your computer screens and love the latest electronic gadgets in your cars totally oblivious to the inherent dangers. Let’s face it, these dangers are well known and are largely ignored.

Now I am going to be blunt: The reason? Because I want you to sit up and listen and understand what is at stake here:

I am talking about your health!

You are surrounded by electronic equipment polluting the air you breathe in your office and your home. The wide spread use of electronic equipment in all parts of the world is wreaking havoc with the body’s energy system.

Odds are this constant bombardment of electro pollution is affecting your emotional and physical health. Scientific studies have conclusively shown how EMF or electromagnetic field emissions from electronic equipment affect our well being. If you are working in built up areas, in a call centre, as a stock market or commodity trader, an air traffic controller or in any other job where you are constantly exposed to electro pollution your health is particularly at risk!

Post mortems of engineers working in power stations have consistently shown degeneration of the brain. Now, nobody will tell you this, because the implications are too wide reaching and would cost industry potentially billions in compensation cases. And individuals in the know cannot afford the cost of fighting court cases.

This isn’t scare mongering but fact. The increase of EMF and Geopathic Stress puts strain on our well being. G.S. has been on the increase for a number of years. Sunspot activity, global warming and a possible shift in the magnetic poles of the earth are contributing factors. EMF and geostress are interconnected: I found in my year long studies if one increases, so does the other.

If you have damp problems in your house you ought to be extra vigilant for geopathic stress and EMF too. Water has high conductivity and will increase the exposure to electro pollution and geopathic stress.

So, how does electro pollution affect us?

The continuous strain of these pollutants eventually causes a breakdown of your immune system, because our bodies are not built to cope with this continuous onslaught. Imagine running a car constantly at top speed. The engine will wear out sooner rather then later. This is what is happening to your immune system when you constantly expose it to Electro Pollution or Geopathic Stress.

The body repairs itself at night, however, when it is overloaded it needs more time to do the job. There are not enough hours to do this properly. Many of us sleep in electro polluted or geopathically stressed places too. This means the body misses out on the chance to repair itself at night.

If you are constantly feeling tired, stressed and anxious, have damp problems in your home, difficulty recovering from illness you may be living or working in a geopathically stressed place.

Fortunately you can counteract the bad effects of EMF and geo stress. Energy vitalisers are your answer. They come in many sizes and also different price ranges. Most products are not as effective as they promise though. So, be careful what you purchase to protect yourself properly. A cheap device is wasted money if it does not work. I have tested many vitalisers in the last 10 years, in part to reduce my own exposure to electro pollution, which was affecting my health badly.

EMF and geo stress are on the increase, so you need to go for a vitaliser that is powerful enough to deal with these harmful energies. Do your research and don’t go for the cheapest models.You might as well save your money. Go for models which neutralise both elctro pollution and geopathic stress, because electro stress and geostress are often present together.



Lydia

anonymous asked:


The old, grizzled pilot was asked, “How should I fly through a thunderstorm that I could not avoid?”

The answer he wanted to give was either, “You can’t.” or “Don’t try.”

But the question needed to be answered. Here is his advice:

Just about the only way to inadvertently get into a thunderstorm is by flying instruments in clouds with embedded thunderstorms and without either weather radar equipment onboard or ground-based weather radar available to your air traffic controller. Let’s assume this is how Fate dealt you such a poor hand.

The biggest danger in a thunderstorm is structural failure. My advice is: don’t do anything that helps the thunderstorm break your airplane. When you realize that you are in trouble, slow down. I mean not just to maneuvering speed but much slower than that. Slow to what is known as ’slow cruise’ - the speed that you use in holding patterns. This will be fairly close to the best rate of climb airspeed for your airplane. Slow cruise is slow enough to minimize the adverse effects of turbulence and fast enough to keep your controls responsive. Consider putting your wheels down. This will help you stay slow. Most airplanes are not as strong with flaps out, so don’t use flaps unless there is no restriction against it in your pilot’s handbook for the airplane.

The reason to slow down is that the higher your airspeed, the greater force turbulence can impart on your airplane. That destructive force comes in the form of lift. Remember that lift is proportional to the speed of the airplane squared. Slow is good.

Too slow is not good simply because the last thing that you need is to stall and spin when you are in a thunderstorm.

There is an adage in aviation that says a pilot’s priorities are aviate, navigate and communicate, in that order. I agree. Certainly your most important task is to fly the airplane. However, you need all the help you can get. So tell air traffic control (ATC) that you are in trouble and need help. Ask them to vector you out of the thunderstorm. Tell them that you cannot maintain the assigned altitude - because you cannot. Ask them to vector you away from high terrain. Be aware that your inability to maintain altitude can easily put you in a position where you cannot hear ATC for some time.

The intensity of rain in a thunderstorm can be truly phenomenal. Quite possibly your engine or engines can start to ingest a great deal of water. This water can turn to ice in your carburetor especially at high altitudes and low power settings. When you apply carburetor heat, the mixture enriches forcing you to lean the engine or risk fouling the spark plugs. Tuning the engine is an integral part of flying the airplane, your most important task.

The updrafts and downdrafts in a thunderstorm can far exceed a general aviation airplane’s ability to climb or dive. So just ride them out. Don’t start building airspeed by pushing your nose down to stay at your assigned altitude in a strong updraft. If you get caught in a strong downdraft, go to your best rate of climb airspeed at full power. You will still go down - just not as fast and not so far. When the downdraft subsides, you will start climbing back to your assigned altitude. If you have oxygen and perhaps if you don’t, ask ATC for a higher altitude so you will have a greater margin of safety when you enter your next overpowering downdraft. If ATC will not grant you a higher altitude, do not be afraid to declare an emergency and tell ATC that you are going to a higher altitude.

There are two things that you should remember here. First, if the FAA issues a violation, it is better to argue in court that you needed that higher altitude than it is to have the surviving members of your family argue in court that the FAA should have cleared you to a higher altitude. Second, when you go high without oxygen, you get so stupid you don’t know how truly stupid you are. Having said that, when you are at 10,000 feet facing 12,000 feet peaks and a known thunderstorm behind you, the options start to narrow. For me, it is better to face hypoxia than certain death.

To sum it up: Plan your fight and check your weather well enough to be certain that you are not going into a thunderstorm.

If, by some fluke of nature, you end up in a thunderstorm that was not predicted and you could not see, then

1.) Slow down.

2.) Remember that flying the airplane is your most important job.

3.) Get out of the thunderstorm as quickly as possible.

4.) Keep going straight with wings level while you ride out overpowering up and downdrafts.

5.) Tell ATC.

6.) Ask for help.



Eric

Adam A asked:


I am joining the USAF this summer.

One of the most intriguing jobs to me is Air Traffic Control. When I mention this to people, all the feedback I get is that this is the most stressful job in the world.

My dad was a pilot for 20 years and says that the stress of the job is over-hyped.

Any thoughts?

Beatrice

Mike H. asked:


I was an Air Traffic controller in the Navy for 5 years but I did not stay in one place long enough to get fully qualified. The FAA says I don’t have enough experience to be hired. What can I do with what I know?

Chester

Stacey Wilson asked:


Volvo earlier released a statement that it is recalling approximately 360,000 cars due to a problem in speed-controls that can cause the vehicle to lose power without any warning. The automaker added that the defect in the electronic throttle module in Volvo cars manufactured between 1999 and 2002 could throw engines into the so-called “limp home” mode having about 15 miles per hour as the maximum speed.

Said recall, which is ordered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), applies to Volvo used parts found in the C70 and V70 models that are manufactured between 2001 and 2002. Other cars subject to recall are the S60 models manufactured between 2001 and 2002, and S70 and V70X models, which are manufactured between 1999 and 2000. Christer Gustafsson, spokesperson of the automaker said that Volvo has fixed the speed-control problem on about 165,000 vehicles of the recall total after sending out notices to owners in March.

The speed-control problem was first flagged by California’s Air Resource Board. After said problem was reported and investigated by the NHTSA, the latter ordered a mandatory recall early this month. Gustafsson added, “Volvo owners who bring their cars to dealerships will have new software reinstalled for the throttle-control unit. We’re already doing about 2,000 or 3,000 of these a week.” In addition Gustafsson noted that “limp home” setting is the safety feature in Volvo cars. Said feature is designed to avoid unintended acceleration in case of a throttle malfunction.

Separately, the NHTSA also ordered recall of 128,000 DaimlerChrysler’s Pacifica sport utility vehicles built between 2005 and 2006 due to software problem. Said software controls Chrysler car parts governing the fuel pump and powertrain control. According to NHTSA, the problem could cause the engine to stall in some cases. As part of the recall, the automaker will reprogram the powertrain controls and substitute the fuel pump on some Chrysler cars.

It can also be recalled that Toyota, a rival of GM, Ford and Chrysler, recalled 368,000 SUVs in July. The recall is all about the defective clip used in Toyota carpet. The defective carpet clip could hinder with brake usage and cause further road misfortunes.



Erica